Warner L. Baxter

"Since we met last year, President Biden and Congress have taken unprecedented actions to address climate change and at the same time help address energy grid reliability and customer affordability. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act includes significant funding for new clean energy technologies transportation, electrification, innovative grid technologies, and robust clean energy tax incentives. Taken together, our industry and our country have an extraordinary package of new tools that will help us effectively execute our clean energy transition plans."

"We had a Chief Sustainability Officer, which I would say when that position was formed, if you think about ESG, it was a lot on the EP, but we realized there's much more to the transition than just the EP. There's the S piece that comes with it and so we took our philanthropic activities as well as our diversity, equity, and inclusion activities and brought it all under the sustainability officer. And so now the ESG piece and of course, we've had the governance is tied together and the reason that's important."

"And then, of course, all these issues we talked about with regard to diversity, equity and inclusion, this is a big deal. We have an opportunity as an industry to lead in so many different ways."

"And you're right, we're leaning in working with the Biden administration and so many others to make sure we're doing this clean energy transition thoughtfully on an accelerated basis that's balanced from reliability and affordability."